Manage Templates and Template Stacks
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Manage Templates and Template Stacks

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Manage Templates and Template Stacks

Use templates and template stacks to define and push standardized network and device configurations to your managed firewalls for consistency.
Where Can I Use This?What Do I Need?
  • NGFW (Managed by Panorama)
  • Device management license
Use templates and template stacks to define the common base configurations that enable firewalls to operate in your network. See Templates and Template Stacks for an overview of the issues you should consider when deciding which firewalls to add to which templates, ordering templates in a stack to manage layers of common and firewall group-specific settings, and overriding template settings with firewall-specific values.
To delete a template, you must first locally Disable/Remove Template Settings on the firewall. Only administrators with the superuser role can disable a template.

Template Capabilities and Exceptions

You can use Templates and Template Stacks to define a wide array of settings but you can perform the following tasks only locally on each managed firewall:
  • Configure a device block list.
  • Clear logs.
  • Enable operational modes such as normal mode, multi-vsys mode, or FIPS-CC mode.
  • Configure the IP addresses of firewalls in an HA pair.
  • Configure a master key and diagnostics.
  • Compare configuration files (Config Audit).
    To Manage Licenses and Updates (software or content) for firewalls, use the PanoramaDevice Management tab options; do not use templates.
  • Renaming a vsys on a multi-vsys firewall.